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Philosophical Chemistry - Genealogy of a Scientific Field (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Chemistry - Genealogy of a Scientific Field (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary
intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies.
Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science,
DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of
divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and
subfields of chemistry. The strategy followed uses a series of
chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty year periods
(1750, 1800, 1850, and 1900), to follow the historical formation of
consensus practices. The three chapters deal with one subfield of
chemistry in the century in which it was developed:
eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic
chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. This book
creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the
variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific
practice. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three
components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners,
and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to
the domain. Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for
those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of
thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and
students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the
two disciplines.
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